The Musée Stendhal is a house museum in Grenoble. It is dedicated to the French novelist Stendhal (1783-1842). Opened in 2012, the Musée Stendhal is located in the Gagnon apartment, the writer's family home in which he grew up. The museum's aim is to show this place of intellectual training where the young writer spent his childhood. The museum preserves period furniture, autographed manuscripts, documents and paintings by Stendhal. In the Great Hall Doctor Gagnon, the writer's maternal grandfather, received the Grenoble society. Here was a work table for the young Stendhal, placed in front of a window overlooking the courtyard. Then follows a natural history cabinet characteristic of the enlightened bourgeoisie apartments of the 18th and 19th centuries, decorated with a large map of the Dauphiné. Doctor Gagnon had built cabinets that covered the walls on both sides of the room, to display minerals, birds, shells, and a stuffed crocodile. This cabinet today presents specimens from the collection of the Natural History Museum of Grenoble. Next to it, there is a summer or work study, dedicated to writing and reading. Upon entering, on the right is a bust representing Voltaire, the doctor's favorite writer. On the left, a bookcase lined the entire back panel with books by popular authors. The pergola terrace overlooking the Jardin de Ville completes the site.